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Databases, Indexes and Abstracts

Electronic
• America: History and Life (UA only)
• Art and Humanities Citation Index (UA only)
• Biography Index (UA only)
• Dissertation Abstracts (Digital Dissertation)
• Ethnic NewsWatch - Full-text (UA only)
• Historical Abstracts (UA only)
• History Universe: Access to African American Studies - Full-text (UA only)
• Humanities Full-text (UA only)
• JSTOR - Full-text (UA only)
• Social Science Citation Index (UA only)
• Sociological Abstracts (UA only)
• Sociological Collection - Full-text (UA only)
Print
• Black Index: Afro-Americana in Selected Periodicals, 1907-1949. New York: Garland, 1981. Ref Z1361 .N39 N58
• In Black and White: a Guide to Magazine Articles, Newspapers Articles and Books Concerning More Than 15,000 Black Individuals and Groups. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. Ref Z1381 .N39 S655
• Index to Black Periodicals. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1988- Ref Z1361 .N39 I5

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Bibliographies

• Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies. Boston, G.K. Hall, 1976- Ref Z881 .N956 S331x
• Rashidi, Runoko. Africans in Early Britain: A Bibliography. [Online]
• Works on Black Canadian History (Some Missing Pages: The Black community in the History of Quebec and Canada) [Online]

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Reference Resources (Handbooks, Encyclopedias, etc.)

• Baskin, Wade. Dictionary of Black Culture. New York: Philosophical Library [1973] Ref E 185.96 .B33
• Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery, edited by Randall Miller and John Smith. New York: Greenwood Press, 1997. Ref E 441 .D53 1997
• Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1996. Ref E185 .E4 1996
• Encyclopedia of African Peoples. New York: Facts on File, 2000. Ref DT15 .E53 2000
• Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Cambridge, Mass Belknap Press, 1980. Ref E184 .A1 .H35
• Political Leaders of Contemporary Africa South of the Sahara: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, c1992. Ref DT 352.8 .P63 1992
• Wiseman, John A. Political leaders in Black Africa: A Biographical Dictionary of the Major Politicians Since Independence. Vermont: Edgar Elgar, 1991. Ref DT 52.8 .P63 1992
• Yakan, Muhammad Zuhdi. Almanac of African Peoples and Nations. New Burnswick, N.J.: Transaction, c1999. Ref DT15 .Y35 1999

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Internet Resources

• Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Sources
• Africa Web Links: An Annotated Research List
• African American Odyssey (from the Library of Congress American Memory collection)
• African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
• Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada
• Black Archives of Mid-America
• Black History at Harpweek
• Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People (Canada)
• CASBAH Project - this website provides information on collections of research sources relevant to Caribbean studies and the history of Black and Asian peoples in Britain that are housed in UK based libraries, archives and audio-visual repositories.
• Center for Black Music Research
• Directory of Underground Railroad Operators
• The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
• Famous Trials by Don Linder. This site contains famous trials of African Americans, such as, Amistad Trial, the Scottsboro Boys Trial, Mississippi Burning Trial and the Sweet Trial.
• The Gilderlehrman Institute of American History Online: Black Voices
• Historical Documents
• Historical Test Archives
• History of Jim Crow
• Infomine Scholarly Internet Resource Collections: Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Resources
• The Internet Black Pages
• Languages of Africa: Ethnologue - a comprehensive country-by-country guide to the languages of Africa and the world.
• Many Rivers to Cross: The African Canadian Experience
• Mathematicians of the African Diaspora - this site includes, computer scientists, physicists and astronomers of the African Diaspora.
• Portraits in Black: The Life of the Black Soldier and Sailor
• Prominent African Americans: Past and Present
• Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• Slaves and the Courts
• Underground Railroad Project in Vermont
• The Underground Railroad in Rochester, New York
• World History Archives: The History of Africa

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Government Resources for Pan-African Studies

• African Population Studies
• Background Notes: Africa [Online]
• Country Studies [Online]
• Freedmen's Bureau Online
• Gateway to African American History
• The Black Population in the United States - U.S. Census Bureau [Online]

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Statistical Resources in Pan-African Studies

• Black Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook. Boulder, CO.: Numbers & Concepts, 1990- Ref E185.5 .B512
• Country Information, Regional and World Rankings [Online] (provides statistical facts, figures and rankings of 190 countries in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America, etc.)
• United States. Bureau of the Census. Negro Population 1790-1915. Washington: Government Printing, 1918. Doc C3.2: N31
• United States. Bureau of the Census. Negroes in the United States, 1920-32. Washington, USGOP, 1935. Ref E 185.6 .U5853 also Doc C3.2: N31/2

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Journals and Newspapers

• Newspapers: African Times, Baltimore Afro-American, Bay State Banner, Call & Post, Caribbean Today, Chicago Defender, New Pittsburgh Courier, New York Amsterdam News and New York Beacon.
• Magazines: African American Magazine, Black Enterprise, Black Issues Book Review, Black Mask and Emerge.
• Journals: Black Issues in Higher Education, Black Renaissance, a Journal of Letters, Arts and Studies, Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, NABJ Journal and Research in African Literature.

Africa
• Africa Research Bulletin: Economic, Financial and Technical [Online]
• Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social, and Cultural Series
• African Development Review [Online]
• AfricaNews [Online]
• African Journal in Conflict Resolution [Online]
• African Studies Review
• Ijele: Art-Journal of the African World
• Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies
• West Africa Review (WAR)
The Americas
• African American Newspapers
• African American Review
• Black American LiteratureForum
• Black Collegian Online
• Black Press USA
• Black Scholar
• Callaloo
• Crisis
• Freedom's Journal [Online]
• Frontal View: An Electronic Journal of African Centered Thought (National Black United Front)
• Journal of Black Studies
• Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
• Journal of National Black Nurses Association
• Journal of Negro Education -Full-text (JSTOR) (UA only)
• Journal of Negro History
• Negro American Literature Forum
• Negro History Bulletin
• The New Crisis
• The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History
• Phylon
• Review of Black Political Economy ; also indexed in Business Source Premier
• Souls: a Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
• Transition [Online] - Full-text (JSTOR) (UA only)
• Western Journal of Black Studies
European
• The Chronicle - Changing Black Britain
• Voice [Online] (Britain best Black newspaper)

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Full-text Books

• Afro-American Almanac
• Afro-Americans in New Jersey from Digital New Jersey State Government Publications
• New Jersey Historical Commission. Steal Away, Steal Away'... A Guide to the Underground Railroad in New Jersey
• University of Virginia's E-Book Library: E-Books By and About African Americans.
• Internet African History Sourcebook

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Images and Other Media

• AP Photo Archives
• Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: a Visual Record
• New York Public Library Digital Library Collection: Images of African Americans from the 19th Century.
• Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
• Remembering Jim Crow
• Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

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Guide to research for materials

• Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies. Boston, G.K. Hall, 1976- Ref Z881.N596 .S331x
• Africa Research Central: Guides to African Studies Resources
• Javanoir: Guide to African American Resources on the Internet
• Peavy, Charles D. Afro-American Literature and Culture Since World War II: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale Research, 1979. Ref Z1229 .N38 R8

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Related Subject Areas

• The Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture
• Amistad Research Center
• Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
• Fisk University Race Relations Institute
• HBCU-Central - a megasite for information and services related to Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
• John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American Documentation
• Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• The William Monroe Trotter Institute

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Associations and Professional Organizations

• African American Studies Librarians Section (AFAS of ALA/ACRL)
• African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)
• African Studies Association
• Association for the Study of African American Life and History
• Association of Black Psychologists
• Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA)
• Black Native Americans Association
• Black Radical Congress
• Congress of National Black Churches
• National Alliance of Black School Educators
• National Association For the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• National Black MBA Association
• National Conference of Black Mayors
• National Council of Negro Women
• National Society of Black Engineers
• National Urban League
• Urhobo (waado) Historical Society

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Area Information (Local, State, National)

• Pan-African Culture & Research Center (University of Akron)
• African American Archives of The Western Reserve Historical Society
• African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 (Ohio Historical Society)
• African Americans in Southeastern Ohio
• Friends of Freedom Society, Inc.
• The Underground Railroad in Ohio

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Grants, Fellowships, etc.

• CollegeSource Online. Under "additional rsources" on this site's homepage is found both financial and career resources
• The Grantsmanship Center
• Onyx Association - Scholarships
• Scholarships for African Americans
• Scholarship Gateway
• United Negro College Fund Scholarships

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